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The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], History of smoking. (search)
History of smoking. The first mode of using tobacco in England was smoking, and Sir Walter Raleigh, as is well known, was the first man that introduced the fashion. Raleigh had his arms emblazoned at his dwelling at Islington, afterwards an inn, known as the Pied Bull, with a tobacco plant upon the top. It was the first house in England in which tobacco was smoked. The celebrated tobacco box of Sir Walter, used in entertaining his guests, was of a cylindrical form, about seven inches in diameter and twelve inches high; the outside was of gilded leather, and within was a receiver of glass or metal, which would hold about a pound of tobacco; a kind of collar connected the receiver with the case, and on every side the box was piercod with holes for the pipes. The honor of being the first female smoker in England, is due to Queen Elizabeth, who copied the habit from Raleigh, and was in her time imitated by ladies of her court. There was another claimant for this honor in the